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“It’s your life, It’s your game, level up” – Nik Wood

Today on the show is my best friend and Bali housemate, Nik Wood, creator of Life Athletics. The idea behind Life Athletics is to treat life like it is a game or a sport, and that you can train yourself in all areas, just like you can with athletics.

Nik and I have been close friends for over a year, helping each other with our various entrepreneurial projects and providing good insight for each other. I wanted to bring Nik on the show because I got so much value when I went through Nik’s Level Up coaching program.

Nik and I have done lots of projects together, including a panel about adventure, starting an ultimate frisbee pickup game in Bali, and hosting coworking day’s at our villa. I was a guest for Nik’s first interview on the Life Athletics Podcast (back when I was not used to giving interviews – let’s see how far we have come).

This is an amazing episode where we dig deep into motivation, goals, games, and how to think about working on different areas of your life.

How can we apply gameful thinking to other areas of our lives? What game are you playing in life? How will you know when you win? What are you winning at already? These are just some of the questions that Nik asks during this interview.  All these questions can help us figure out when we are reacting to the negatives in our life vs. figuring out what we want and moving towards it.

On of my favorite parts comes towards the end of the episode, when Nik lays down a giant idea for all of us: Global Goals – what can we achieve as a species?

So if you have an area of your life where you really want to take things up a level, this is the episode for you!

What you will learn in this episode:

-How we can treat our goals like a game and make them more fun

-How to gain momentum with your goals

-How to manage our state and experience

-How to set short, medium, and long range goals

-Action vs. Reaction in your life

-How to acknowledge and celebrate your wins

-How to connect with a way of being that leads us to take the right action every time

-Understand where your motivation comes from

-What are Global Goals?

Quotes:

“Thinking in one area is applicable in another area” – Nik Wood

“Acknowledge where you are already winning to give yourself momentum” – Nik Wood

“It’s your life, It’s your game, level up” – Nik Wood

“If you see yourself as an artist, you see art everywhere” – Nik Wood

“How does it feel to be your horizon self?” – Nik Wood

“A lot of people don’t know what game they are playing in life” – Nik Wood

“Adventure is living life with a sense of wonder” – Nik Wood

“Adventure makes me feel excited, alive, enthusiastic, and gleeful” – Nik Wood

Continue the Adventure (Resources from this episode):

Life Athletics

Thanks Nik Wood!

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